Chapter 1 An Outline of Journalism 1
1.1 What Is Journalism? 1
1.2 Media Categories 8
1.3 The Trend of Media Convergence 22
QUESTIONS FOR DISCUSSION 24
Chapter 2 Categories of English News Stories 26
2.1 What's"Hard"and What's"Soft"? 26
2.2 News Brief 28
2.3 Straight News 30
2.4 In-depth Report 31
2.5 Editorials 33
2.6 Features 35
EXERCISES 37
Chapter 3 Reading Comprehension of News Stories 40
3.1 Grammatical Features of Headlines 40
3.2 Grammatical Features of Text Body 46
3.3 Other Stylistic Characteristics of News Stories 49
3.4 Some Practical Skills of Reading Newspaper Articles 54
EXERCISES 55
Chapter 4 Listening Comprehension of English News Items 62
4.1 What Makes English News Listening Comprehension Difficult? 62
4.2 How to Catch Information while Listening to English News Items? 64
4.3 Other Measures of Improving Your Listening Comprehension 69
4.4 Useful Materials and Resources 71
EXERCISES 77
Chapter 5 The Writing of Headlines 81
5.1 The Purposes of News Headlines 81
5.2 Characteristics of News Headlines 82
5.3 Principles of Headline Writing 88
5.4 Guidelines of Headline Writing 92
5.5 Procedures of Headline Writing 94
5.6 Headlines on the Web 95
EXERCISES 96
Chapter 6 The Writing of News Lead 98
6.1 Lead and Its Classificiation 98
6.2 How to Write a Lead 101
6.3 Activities and Assignments 105
Chapter 7 The Inverted Pyramid Form and the Structure of News Stories 113
7.1 What Is an Inverted Pyramid Form? 113
7.2 Why Do We Need an Inverted Pyramid Form? 114
7.3 The Information Structure in an Inverted Pyramid Form 116
7.4 The Inverted Pyramid Form and the Writing of News Stories 118
7.5 Some Other Basic Structures of News Stories 121
EXERCISES 133
Chapter 8 How to Write a Feature 137
8.1 Characteristics of Feature Writing 137
8.2 Sources of Features 139
8.3 How to Write and Organize Feature Stories 140
EXERCISES 150
Chapter 9 How to Make a Story Accurate,Brief and Attractive 151
9.1 How to Make a Story Accurate 151
9.2 How to Make a Story Brief 156
9.3 How to Make a Story Attractive 160
EXERCISES 162
Chapter 10 The Use of Background Information 166
10.1 What Is Background Information? 166
10.2 Background Information in News Writing 173
10.3 Background Information Attached to News Reports 177
EXERCISES 179
Chapter 11 Bias and Preference in News Report 184
11.1 What Is Media Bias and Preference? 184
11.2 What Causes Bias and Preference in News Report? 187
11.3 Efforts to Correct Bias and Preference 191
11.4 For Audiences:How to Recognize Bias and Preference in a News Story 196
EXERCISES 198
Chapter 12 An Outline of the Journalism in English-speaking Countries 202
12.1 Role of Journalism 202
12.2 Journalism and the Government 203
12.3 Mass Media and Society 206
12.4 Journalistic Practice and Protection of Citizens'Rights 210
12.5 Newspapers in Some English-speaking Countries 214
QUESTIONS FOR DISCUSSION 222
Chapter 13 World-famous News Agencies and Media 224
13.1 World-famous News Agencies 224
13.2 Newspapers and Magazines of World-wide Influence 232
13.3 English Radios of World-wide Influence 246
13.4 English TVs of World-wide Influence 249
QUESTIONS FOR DISCUSSION 253
Appendix Ⅰ Commonly-used Words and Expressions in Journalistic English 254
Appendix Ⅱ Major English Newspapers and Magazines in the World 265
Appendix Ⅲ Commonly-seen Columns in English Media 271
Bibliography 282